the humiliation and brutality their army has committed against palestinian children on occupied land. also tapping into china's monetary wealth as german chancellor angela merkel tries to persuade beijing to spend billions to support a struggling euro zone. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries voiced their approval for peaceful atomic research in the country this was the key point in a unanimously adopted resolution that wrapped up a nonaligned movement summit in tehran the us and israel have been left reeling by the success of the gathering comes as a new i.a.e.a. report suggested iran has significantly enhanced its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by tehran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when the un chief ban ki moon appeared at the summit he condemned their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on the site mohammad marandi

a professor at the university of tehran says it's ironic that the us has forced iran to launch an atomic program the iranians are saying that this report came out a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce it at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the europeans by taking. the citizen. people hostage forced the iranians to take that politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility independent researcher psoriasis a poor believes iran is the main barrier to u.s. domination in the region. mr brime ki-moon does recognize the facts and he has said so this iran is a key player in the region and nothing much really can be solved q fowler's if you

want participation and i'm sure that the united states and israel good likeness to by human to come down hard on the iran things he's also aware of the fact there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine aligned movement the united states state department they do tend to be very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries and pretty clear although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global vision monic power with the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent coming together to resist this kind of action israel is being heavily criticized after several of its soldiers testified the children were often their main targets the release of follows the publication of two damning reports one from british lawyers that visited israel's military courts and the other from the human rights group defense of children international the detail of multiple violations committed

against children party's policy or has the story. there were demonstrations as indeed there are if we recap now be silent which is a palestinian village in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of whom were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who were stun grenades now these reports come out on the heels of another damning conclusion there is really defense forces has come under fire from its own rank and file an organization known as breaking the silence has published the testimonies of some fifty israeli soldiers and commanders in which they deal specifically with how the idea here treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the use of violence by soldiers when it comes to

children and at the same time they say that very often the i.d.f. deliberately targets children using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also going to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation as you can witness from the distance that we published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children for example we were doing constant arrest appropriations throughout the west bank arresting i don't know how many people you know on a nightly basis and many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did in most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the radio parisian streets we had that we basically invaded the palestinian town south of the city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so it's some point we picked

a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as a shoe. saluted the stones that were being thrown by his friends or by these supposed friends with the team instead of us we were hoping that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help him he just got injured in the indication so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself being criticized on a number of fronts. television and still ahead for you this hour acting in bad faith. r.t. explores the reasons behind an unprecedented rise of islamic extremism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. a u.k. court has shattered the hopes and the reputation of russia's self exiled tycoon boris berezovsky his high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire compatriot. was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history artie's laura smith in london has the story for us. the final

verdict in this case found against bodies that is old school which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for each run up but i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he arrived looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the key world all of russia's mega rich and what they go to up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the

strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's brought to london to school building billionaires along with their own to raj is megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in their shades in a menacing way but he spent his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that abramovich intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact him going to win never business partners that he was making payments to but is also key but they were only for political protection. roof in russian but as he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two from which this is being one of the biggest civil trials ever held

in british legal history it's been. hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've had the results of this case new when this time around we may see more cases of this nature here in london. this week u.s. presidential candidates have been touring key states to secure support for november's election republican mitt romney beat a barack obama to the gulf coast visiting areas hit by hurricane isaac there's also been a lot of harsh rhetoric between the two obama's supporters accuse romney of paying a little attention to us soldiers fighting abroad while the republican slammed obama's first term as a foreign policy failure and that he would get tough with russia however social on sociology professor william robinson says there's little real choice for american voters. there's no real significant difference between the republicans and the democrats regard to the economic program both parties are beholden to transnational

corporate interests particularly to banking interests of oil interests to the u.s. military industrial complex this is a longstanding reality of u.s. electoral campaigns increasingly their personalized increasingly the real issues at stake the vital issues for the people in the united states and worldwide are not dealt with and increasingly they are simple simply personalized the times there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon is yours in a little more social programs that are a little more and really those are the only i seals are the only significant differences right now between these two parties in their presidential candidates. meanwhile in charlotte north carolina hundreds of occupy demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's business district chanting slogans and holding up signs decrying corporate influence on u.s. politics the democrats' convention is said to open in the city later on monday

earlier demonstrators gathered in tampa during the republican national convention but the turnout was less than expected due to hurricane isaac the pastor of florida attacks by radical muslims on a moderate islamic leaders in russia have been on the rise recently prompting fears of a surge in extremism an influential sheikh was killed today in this don when a female suicide bomber entered the cleric's home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on moderate muslim figures in central russia in july parties ego of peace can all found out where the roots of extremism are leaving. so the trip to work that turned to tragedy stans had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among the lever survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation

behind the attack but the spotlights now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in russia just some of the local muslim communities have financed by arab families from states where his an official religion on the couple the money has to be worked off and they demand the ideology is that it's an immediate like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but abysmal in you know the radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but authorities say different ideas are often taught in smaller mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks the art it's the mom's denying the

more radical but admit they do not support their stance official branches of islam and many of the we don't divide brother muslims. and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a caters for one to discredit as. we were told here believers are taught to sincerely and equality there are no longer up held in modern society looking with justice can only be achieved through is libelous in the way someone says islam is the only thing that way of life and social order that called radical the more extreme islamist ago and what's the punishment for stealing thought about and chopped off and not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal code nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for some experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in the books by classical world famous author

is a bounce will more than some of prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react and of course the radicals use this to gain influence with of course start our son is a long way from becoming engulfed by the worst of the radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now keep the wrong moves but only reversing the situation you've got is going to have already that are stunning. well we have more for you on this and many other stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a little of what's online for you right now. eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to a new mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy in a koran burning takes. and the u.s. insurance companies try to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by this summer's record breaking drought. and tens of thousands take to the streets of bahrain in the first sanctioned opposition rally in months

to demand the democratic reforms and of the release of a prominent human rights activist. the latest unemployment figures for the eurozone put it at a record eighteen million in july that's more than ten percent the highest jobless rate since one thousand nine hundred five the worst affected country in spain where a quarter of the population is now out of work journalist and author miguel on home says that the current economic policy isn't bringing a resolution to the crisis any closer. we haven't really tackled a problem with the eurozone we just have a program of zero study to for all the different countries to reduce the deficit debt is certainly not and also is not working he says islington growth which is an even worse problem and we are in the midst of

a recession certainly here in spain and very soon in many other european countries so unless we have a clear idea of how to reform the euro now we are not in detroit but it's not just the economic crisis it's also the economic policies. he says is now performing a very hard agenda of a steady two cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his family's economy and the problem is that he's not working it's not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all other aspects of spain's economy german chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up her visit to china it was aimed at tapping into the country's monetary muscle to tell the pull europe out of its downward spiral she sought to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the europeans ability for a firewall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however the german leaders overtures were met with a guarded response from china's leaders who stopped short of pledging more cash

injections into european debt and. the european council on foreign relations explains why the chinese are in no hurry to lend a hand to berlin. the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism . the chinese. offering lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example how much the chinese invested in european bonds in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably won't know so there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of a bus obviously this is a european company and so it would benefit not just germany but also france and

other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off for german companies are all going to european companies and in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries and mostly germany seems to be winning that competition. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world for you this hour at least fourteen civilians have been killed in a u.s. drone strike near the town of raw in southern yemen the local tribesmen say women and children are among the victims military officials claim the airstrikes were based on incorrect intelligence as the targets were thought to be armed is limited militants recent drone strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemeni campaign against al qaeda in the country. hundreds of buddhist monks took it to the streets of me in march second largest city mandalay on saturday they gathered in support of government plans to deport or move to camps the muslim minority living in the country the idea came after a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the west of me in march which left

almost ninety people dead according to the un muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. a controversial south korean a preacher sun myung moon has died he was ninety two years old moon was the founder of the unification church which he turned into a worldwide movement the church gained notoriety for alleged brainwashing and the mass weddings of followers critics accuse him of profiteering through the church after he created a business empire that included arms factories and publishing ventures. an epic event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors in historic uniforms have recreated the battle of bora do you know when russian soldiers fought the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago artie's tom barton has more from the front line. battle is raging here at the field of bora deano to the west of moscow the french and the russians have squared up

a cannons are blasting the infantry is squaring up and the cavalry is preparing to charge and the reenactment of the climactic battle of napoleon's invasion of russia two hundred years before cousens of people have turned out to see this reenactment and reenact as a combo for russia and all the way from france and germany to take part really all of this on the scale of a hollywood film all the people here getting just a part of the experience of what it was like to be present at that great historical moment polian marched into russia in one thousand told with what was then the largest army ever assembled he intended to make imperial russia soon for peace and so become the master of europe but it was here at this point to the west of moscow that the russians decided to stand and fight the result being an enormous long and brutal civil war going much of a battle the french guns pounded the russian lines all day rather like this but the

russians failed to break they stood their ground the next day they were forced to retire from the field having lost so many men but polian took moscow but he wasn't able to keep it within two years not only had the polio failed to make imperial russia super peacekeepers the russian army that was marching into paris. it's good to see tom doing his part to defend moscow now be back in a few minutes with the headlines don't go away.

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carve five billion dollars out of its fortune. was a fundamentally unreliable with. the republicans a freshly nominated presidential candidate promises a hardline stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on previous policy. those were the headlines for you this morning stay with us for. coming up next on our two. if you. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle forward to blot of our stock on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to

what degree is the global economy now centered in the east and south are we living in the pacific century and if we are what does it really mean. anything. to cross-talk the apec group i'm joined by and lee in new york she's an adjunct professor at new york university and author of what the u.s. can learn from china in cambridge we have william overhauled he is a senior research fellow with the ash center for democratic governance and innovation at harvard's kennedy school and here in the studio with me is the of on aziz he's a professor of economics at cornell university right crosstalk rosen effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and only one of us stuck in the end why should people know something about this why is it important it's important for a number of reasons. one this is an organization that has been growing and clout and it is some it was

a number of asian countries represented and many americans are not aware of this and with more and more activity going on in asia pacific and as you were posing the question is it the pacific century and i would say yes because you know the pacific region is growing in wealth and whenever you have growing wealthy a growing influence and power and you're going to start to see more of these countries join the world making classes and this is going to create changes throughout the world ok. in cambridge are we going into the pacific century you know these are right countries represented. well yes. but we we've been in. the half century asian dynamism. for the last half century and clearly. japan and.

china. you know in asia have become much more important during this period and they they do join they were. the ruling class as it were. i think it's i think it's important to distinguish that from the idea that that power is shifting completely across the pacific we we actually don't know whether that's going to happen. when i was starting my career. americans were paranoid about japan taking over the world and. now japan is one of the biggest problems in the world economy china may continue its venom is a more it may become another japan. may. decline because it doesn't invest in infrastructure and education or it may

continue to be the center of innovation and economic dynamism so it's a pacific century it's not clear at all clear what the weighting across the pacific will be ok even when you think the weighting will be i mean is it going to be as a lot of people say this is china's club ok let's be fair it's china's club well one bit to look at is the following if be just look at what happened in the last four years we knew what we did there was the global financial crisis since the lehman collapsed and just imagine suppose the asian countries especially the members of the asian members of the impact. it's not doing like what they are doing now in terms of economic performance i think the global economic growth is close to zero now now the fact is now that it was going to go because of the apec country exactly exactly now the global economy growth is three point five percent so it's of course it's not high but it's not too bad that's why some people report five is

a lot for a lot of countries right now exactly in fact some people even question the global crisis because many people now using the global economic crisis but how do you call global economic crisis when the economy in the world is growing by two point five percent but the entity is precisely because of pull out by the asian members of the . so from that standpoint i think i fully believe it and built in themselves the you know the importance of apec as the organisation and if i go back to it's growing importance because the european union is going down the trains i mean it is that one of the reasons why it's growing in importance. well you're going to tell me where you're going to prison i was sara we're down the drain. well china actually has indicated their support of the european union.